Practical Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana (Part II)

Using Prometheus blackbox exporter for free uptime checks

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In Part I of the Practical Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana series, we examined various architecture decisions and installed barebones Prometheus and Grafana onto Kubernetes via Helm. Now that we have basic, built-in Kubernetes metrics via kube-state-metrics, we can add in application-specific monitoring…